Weapons Man

Every once in a while, a movie comes along that sets a new Gretzky in the firmament. This is one such movie.

If it does well at the box office, can Canadian Sniper II: Moosetafa’s Revenge be far behind?

Hat tip: We Are the Mighty

A third suspect has been charged in he theft of 16 firearms, including six burst-capable M4 carbines, from a US Army Reserve Armory in Worcester, Massachusetts. According to the FBI, Tyrone James of Dorchester, MA (a Boston suburb/neighborhood) was involved in burglar James W. Morales’s attempts to sell off the weapons.

A warm Christmas to all of you from all of us here at WeaponsMan.com and at Hog Manor.

May something splendid roost under your tree, and may your New Year be a blessed and prosperous one.

There’s still one post hanging fire from yesterday, a weekly roundup, that will be kicked onto the web (backdated to 2200 yesterday) some time today, but we’re not actually working here today, and we hope you’re not, either. (We know for a lot of our readers in the .mil and LE, it’s just another duty day — always a hard sell to your family).

For those of you who are the praying kind, we humbly recommend that you pray for the safety of the soldiers of the USA, France, Russia, and much of the Judeo-Christian world, along with our civilized Arab and Kurdish allies, deployed in harm’s way in the Middle East.

Today, we’re doing it a day early. Tomorrow is Christmas Day; and we, and we certainly hope you, are taking it off.  We’ll cover the usual subjects: Guns, Usage and Employment, Cops ‘n’ Crims, Unconventional (and current) Warfare, and Lord Love a Duck!

You can envision Nature as this if you like, the Biblical Lion and the Lamb…

The Deodand must be executed! And the owners, sued. Certainly not the JD’s that flung the cart.

One of the presentation’s 101 slides shows just how much these guys value education. Not much. (It embiggens)

In the beginning, as a super-duper flechette-launching grenade-launcher infantry weapon project (the Special Purpose Infantry Weapon, SPIW) collapsed, what survived was a small grenade launcher modeled on an H&R Topper single-shot shotgun with a thyroid problem. This was the M79 bloop gun so fondly remembered by Vietnam vets. The M79 was introduced in 1961 as an infantry weapon, to restore the grenade-launcher capability lost when the M14 rifle replaced M1 rifles and carbines, which could take a grenade launcher attachment. (Grenade launcher development has always lagged rifle development in the US. Early in World War II, Springfield rifles were kept in the rifle squad for grenadiers, because there was no grenade-launcher attachment for the M1 yet, five or six years after its formal adoption).

(Yes, we’re nearly a day behind. Can’t be helped. Right now, just call us … an aspiring wrapper. We’ll be catching up throughout the day, and expect to make only one brief post tomorrow. Saturday we return to the normal schedule. -Ed).

An interesting report. If it’s true, it indicates something that should surprise no one, except for everyone in the State Department, and everyone in the current administration’s Pentagon: China will do what Chinese leaders think is in China’s best interests, not what they are obligated to do by International treaties.

Well, Oldsmobiles and Mental Illness. Mostly… eh. We’ve seen this before: the blank, slack-jawed look of the creature with little more than brain-stem activity. Homeless shelters’re full of ’em. So are the prisons.

If you said the US Navy, you’re right.

Carl Walther had made pocket pistols for decades when they took over — there’s really no other word — the German target-shooting world in the 1930s with their long-barreled target pistol. It was introduced under the prosaic name of Sportpistole in 1925 and then developed into the M1932 Olympia and the M1936 Olympia II. The Olympia II was produced until the war’s outbreak, and then production slowed until some time in 1944 when Speer’s rationalization (if that’s the word) of German industry choked off any further production of sporting arms at Walther.

Keon Allison, the pastor of the City of God Church in no-man’s-land-looking northwest Detroit clearly believes that the Lord helps the believer who helps himself. When a man (who had already attacked him (and his wife) repeatedly) interrupted services to charge him with a brick, Allison responded with deadly force from a Glock pistol.

Well, it’s actually hard to blame the train, when two escaped sleigh horses were stylin’ and profilin’ on the tracks. And it’s hard to blame the horses — it’s not like they’re the product of millions of generations of natural selection for brains.

Karl Holt on finishing the Marine Corps Marathon.

It looks like Colt is on its way out of bankruptcy by year’s end, the manager-owners having got what they wanted, retention of control and ownership of the company. The lenders get new debt worth, on paper, a fraction of the bad debt the owners ran up as they mismanaged Colt to the poorhouse amid the largest sustained boom in firearms manufacturing and sales since V-J Day.

Trevor Fitzgibbon got laid by forcing himself on employees and clients’ employees, and his charm, style and intermittent personal hygiene. But mostly, by forcing himself on them.

And here we thought the trailer was for musical instruments!

This is the official Metropolitan Police guidance for surviving a terror attack in five easy steps.